Wednesday, July 30

Life for a private investigator can be quite demanding, and
Drew Farthering is no stranger to stress and business. Finally though,
everything seems to be going smoothly. He’s engaged to the woman of his dreams
and doesn’t have any cases demanding his attention. He soon finds out a storm
is brewing behind the calm after a former girlfriend, Fleur, and her husband
come in need of help. Fleur is the primary suspect in the murder of an actor
she used to work with at The Mikado.

Despite not wanting to get drawn into Fleur’s life, Drew
finds her husband extremely likeable and relents to their plea to help clear
Fleur’s name (much to the chagrin of Drew’s fiancé). However, as he begins to
investigate it seems that this might be far more complicated than he though. It
seems that everyone in the theatre troop had motive and few of them have any
sort of alibi. All the while, the wedding draws nearer while the murder case
becomes more and more muddled. Will Drew be able to get to the bottom of this
case? And what sort of toll will this place on his relationship?

Wednesday, July 23

It started with DUPLO. I was just a little tyke, bumbling
around the house and talking in only semi-understandable words. I loved those
big plastic blocks. Then, when I was a few years older, I was able to graduate
to ‘big boy’ blocks: LEGO blocks! I remember going to the toy store with my dad
and being shown a couple of sets I could pick from. In the end it was between a
space set and a pirate set. Though I’m sure both of them would’ve occupied my
imagination for hours upon hours, it was the pirate set that won out. It’s the
first LEGO set I remember getting, and my collection only grew.

As a teenager I held on to my LEGO sets, but they got
temporarily pushed to the side, only occasionally being pulled out. Recently,
however, I’ve found myself being drawn back to LEGO.I’m sorting through my old sets and acquiring
new ones.

Sunday, July 13

They are one of America’s best kept secrets. Serving in
World War I, they spent more time in combat than other American units and were
never overtaken by their enemies. Not a single man was captured, and they were
well decorated. Despite all of this, this unit, comprised of African Americans,
face discrimination from their own country.

Written by Max Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White, The Harlem Hellfighters seeks to not
only show us the accomplishments of the 369th Infantry Regiment, but
also to show us the horrors of racism they faced. Indeed, this is where this graphic
novel best succeeds.

Wednesday, July 9

In high school he was the star football player. Now, the
only thing Rick Dial is good at is moping and playing video games. His mom and
younger brother attempt to engage with him, but he shuts them out. His father
is no longer around, having left with an old girlfriend. After a traffic
accident leaves him crippled, he turned to video games to dull the pain.

Little does Rick know that this obsession with video games
makes him a prime candidate for a secret government program. A Russian terrorist
has created a whole digital reality, named the Realm. Through the Realm, he can
launch attacks on American systems, wreaking havoc wherever technology could be
found. Rick is tasked with entering the Realm to help stop this man before he
can sow seeds of destruction and chaos across the country. In this digital
world, Rick is freed from the constraints of his injury, but anything that
happens to him there will affect his real body. If you die in the Realm, there
are no extra lives.